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Tax Plan Puts Michigan on the Right Road

Updated March 30, 2005 12:01 a.m. ET

I take great exception to your March 23 editorial, "Michigan Is for Taxers." Your assertion that we're a high-tax state is as French-fried as your assertion that Jacques Chirac is ringing in on our economic policy.

First let me correct an overall misconception about Michigan's tax climate which was at the heart of your commentary. Michigan is not a "high tax" state for business. Studies from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Council on State Taxation place Michigan at the national average in state...